Episode guide
The Sixties: Season 1
10 episodes · first aired May 29, 2014
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- 1 Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969) May 29, 2014 · 1h Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I Dream of Jeannie, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and more. Tom Hanks…
- 2 The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963) Jun 5, 2014 · 1h The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more…
- 3 The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969) Jun 12, 2014 · 1h A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Included: a look at the conclusions drawn from the Warren Report; and eyewitness testimony. Remarks…
- 4 The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968) Jun 19, 2014 · 1h From just several hundred advisors at the start of the decade, to more than 550,000 American troops by the end of it, the escalation of the war in Vietnam – and the fighting and the dying…
- 5 A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968) Jun 26, 2014 · 1h Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses…
- 6 The British Invasion (1964 - 1967) Jul 10, 2014 · 1h Clips of performances by British bands of the 1960s, including Manfred Mann, the Animals, Peter and Gordon, Joe Cocker, Traffic, Procol Harum, the Troggs, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, the…
- 7 The Space Race (1960 – 1969) Jul 17, 2014 · 1h Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Wolfe, Andy Chaikin, and Tom Hanks…
- 8 1968 (1968) Jul 24, 2014 · 1h Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, Lance Morrow, Evan Thomas, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Tim Naftali, and Mark Kurlansky discuss how one of the most dramatic years in American history was…
- 9 The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969) Jul 31, 2014 · 1h Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism…
- 10 Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969) Aug 7, 2014 · 1h American culture changed fundamentally from the beginning to the end of the 1960s as the tastes, morals, and politics of the Baby Boomer generation came to define America. Jann Wenner…